Thanks Michel, I am happy to accept your proposal.
I also agree with you, that the main changes might be GUI and memory wise.
I don't have the full knowledge about memory footprint, then I guess your help is going to be very usefull. (The nokia 770 has indeed a poor memory management, wich makes it slow at startup, Nokia is saying that they are working on it).
However I do a lot with GUI, although I didn't use a lot GTK, I know better Qt and wxwidgets.
But I know now the maemo hildon-gui.
It is the first time I'm going to work with somemone over the net, then I am opened for any suggestions on the way we have to organise ourself (altought I'm sure it is not going to be so different of our engineering division at work).
I will not have a lot of time from thursday till the first week of January (on leave), but I will try to connect regulary from some wifi "hotspot" and check my mails. But I will be very active I guess when I m back.
Regards
Bertrand
On 12/21/05, Michel Salim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 20/12/05, Paul Pogonyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bertrand wrote:
>
> > My name is Bertrand, I have the project to port quarry to the maemo platform
> > (the Nokia 770 environment) see http://www.maemo.org/ .
>
> Interesting. How much are you planning to port? I.e. as far as I understand,
> there is no way to stick this entire application into a handheld, or am I wrong?
>
> Is porting going to be a serious code restructuring, or mainly resolving
> portability problems?
>
Mainly portability problems; the Nokia 770 has an ARM CPU and runs
Linux, and applications are written using Gtk+ (currently version 2.6,
so as long as Quarry does not use 2.8-isms it should even compile
out-of-the-box).
The changes that might need to made are UI-oriented; the screen is
only 800x480 so the menu layout, etc. might need tweaking. Also, the
memory footprint needs to be quite small, as the device only has 64 MB
of RAM and by default does not have a swap device (swapping on flash
RAM is probably a fast way to kill the memory cells!)
I might be interested in joining the porting effort, so perhaps we can
coordinate something between us.
Regards,
- Michel
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~msalim
